Site publishers have wanted a faster payment method than waiting for snail mail to bring a check for their ad display earnings.

Reports of YouTube’s unavailability in Morocco has raised fears that the government is censoring access to the video sharing site.

Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference.

As a daily user of Google News, I’m interested in what will happen to it – for better, for worse, or for just plain different.  According to a recent interview with Nathan Stoll, one of Google’s product managers, there may be a lot of changes in store, including the introduction of video.

“Google News May Introduce Video Component”

I’ve been waiting for the PlayTable for quite a while. Mary Jo Foley (our favorite Microsoft Watcher) says it’s coming soon. The demos I saw at Microsoft’s TechFest a couple of years back were stunning. If the product is even 1/2 as good as the demo this one will catch everyone by surprise.

Oh, funny aside? Our favorite name for our new kid? It’s Milan. And I didn’t know until today that the code-name for the PlayTable is Milan.

I am working on publishing a podcast in iTunes for one of my clients. From what I have read on various blogs iTunes can be very picky, so I thought I would post this for anyone else having this problem. I was getting the following error message:

There are days when it seems like Google is trying to save the world, and there are days when it seems like Google is trying to take it over.  According to a recent survey from bigmouthmedia, we men tend towards that latter viewpoint.

FeedDemon is the Windows desktop RSS application I’ve been using for the past few years.

And for the past few months, I’ve been testing the various betas of the upcoming new version 2.5.

Cable network Bravo is entering into the Hispanic market with a promotional partnership with sister network Telemundo and Bravo’s popular series "Top Chef 3 Miami."

Steve O’Hear — who also writes for ZDNet on social media — has a great post up at Last100 about how bandwidth-stingy Internet Service Providers threaten to stall many online-video apps such as Joost by throttling the download speeds that their users get.

Never mind trying to spot your house with Google Earth – residents in a few American cities can now try to spot themselves with Google Maps.  A new feature called Street View represents those areas exactly as a pedestrian would see them.

Well it looks like the previous rumours of Google Maps Street View are coming true, Google today announced at the Where 2.0 conference, that they have added a new feature called “Street View” in certain locations on Google Maps. As well as this, starting today, Google is also adding developer-created gadgets called “Mapplets” to Google Maps.

China.com, an Internet service provider has signed advertising deals with Google and China Mobile in an effort to expand its partnerships.

What Does Trackback Spider Do?

From what I have read on the pre-release materials, it sends trackback notifications to create one-way links to your website.

That means:-

Mobile phone accessories will generate more than  $32 billion in revenues in 2007, more than the $28 million projected for the Smartphone market according to a study from ABI Research.

It’s the end of an era at VeriSign – Stratton Sclavos, the company’s CEO, has resigned.  “[T]he leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world” will now be managed by William A. Roper, Jr.

Just because the bird flu has flown away from the headlines doesn’t mean it is gone for good. Participants in a blog summit run by the US Department of Health and Human Services will try to address the issues surrounding a potential outbreak.

There are probably no more than 500 words on the entire site, but the first sentence of ooyala’s “About Us” section sure gets one point across: “The company was started by former Google engineers and product managers.”  That was originally written in bold, by the way.

Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following:

Microsoft Live Search Maps has added a number of cities in 3-D to their service, among them New York City.

The 3-D images of New York City include aerial views of Times Square, Central Park, Wall Street and other well-known locations. The mapping service will also offer local listings, ratings, reviews and driving directions.

In addtition Live Search Maps will also offer real-time traffic information and custom maps that users can create and use for themselves or share with others.